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Before the first European settlers,
the Mississauga Native people inhabited what we
know today as Kensington. The first European settlers
arrived in the late 1700s. The British took
possession of the land as part of a massive land
sale treaty first signed in 1787 in Prince Edward
County with three Mississauga Native Chiefs. The
southern part of the Toronto segment covered the
lakeshore from roughly the Etobicoke River to the
Scarborough Bluffs. |
![Photo of the Denisons' Belle Vue home as it looked in 1865.](photos/beginning.jpg) |
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